I don't really know, now that I think about it, why I really came to Singapore this break. I guess my parents just booked me on a flight and I came. I'm here for 3 weeks, with nothing much to do, but then again, if I was in the UK I'd just be bumming around someones house, feeling like a bit of a leech, so its not all bad. And you know, seeing the ( Read more... )

my education occurs and progresses because my work-social calendar allows me a night a week where I can just sit on the sofa in my room and read about whatever I like on the internet. this week i was struck by a housewide bout of food poisoning so I decided I'd just stay nights in, no work, no seeing anyone, and i've had loads of time. i've learnt ( Read more... )

Guardian, translating an end of the year review poll from L'equipe ( Read more... )

Its Movember and me and my male housemates are growing moustaches to raise awareness about prostate and testicular cancer. As I embark on this quest to look like a proper Indian, I shall post photographic updates on my first ever attempt to grow a moustache and look like a 1970s homosexual

whoever said 2nd year was doss? not me? me.

this term i have:
a slave driver tutor
munificent 3000 word essays
job apps
compulsory lectures (@#$@#$#)
football, training twice a week games once
careers events

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social life!?!?!?!?!

worcester college is across the road from worcester cottage, which is much smaller and houses a number of worcester tutors who like having very nice rooms. my tutor conrad has a room in worcester cottage, next to this english professor. i'm sitting outside conrads room on this couch, waiting for him to come in, when the door opens....and Emma ( Read more... )

attica - unbelievable. 2 parts perfectly explained in code:

a. if all the animals along the equator were capable of flattery, then halloween and thanksgiving would fall on the same day

b. when i was four years old i watched my mother kill a spider, with a teacosy. years later i realised it was not a spider - it was my uncle harold

week left till i start second year, move into the house, etc etc. tell you what i've been so bored the last week im already on england time. cant wait.

edit: i now leave the island on the 28th instead, and its straight from london to gijon

Not necessarily my favourites, but lovely quotes nonetheless ( Read more... )

did something damn stupid at work today. this guy gave me a prodigious stack of paper to proofread and asked me to have a look through it and return it to him by the end of tomorrow. I sort of started doing it, forgot about the deadline (it was a fairly interesting case in my defence) and finished it today. so i gave it to him, much to his ( ( Read more... )